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Maxey

Maxey proper noun: a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF125085).

Proper noun

Maxey (countable and uncountable, plural Maxeys)

  1. A village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF125085).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Maxey

pluralMaxeys
alternative formMaxcy

Origin of Maxey

From the genitive case of the personal name Mack + Old English eġ (“island; low-lying land”). Ekwall (1960) refers the first element to Old Irish Maccus, a Norse-Gaelic form of the Old Norse name Magnus.

Questions about Maxey

What does Maxey mean?
Maxey means a village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF125085).
What part of speech is Maxey?
Maxey is a proper noun.

Words near Maxey in the dictionary

  1. Maxentia
  2. Maxentian
  3. Maxentius
  4. maxes
  5. maxes out
  6. Maxey
  7. Maxeys
  8. Maxfield
  9. Maxfields
  10. maxflow
  11. maxheap

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